Correspondence

2916.  RB to Edward Chapman

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 34.

Florence,

May 2. ’51.

Dear Sir,

My friend, Mr Read, a poet of considerable reputation in America, wishes for an introduction to you—and tho’ I never have had the pleasure of becoming personally acquainted with you,—yet I venture to hope that my interest in this gentleman may be an excuse for giving him the letter he desires,—and that you will kindly bestow on him all the information that he may require connected with publication in London—greatly obliging thereby, Dear Sir,

Yours very truly

Robert Browning

Address: ___ Chapman Esq. / Piccadilly.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Mrs. Joseph Ashby Burton.

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